Some key personalities of Saudi royal family have greeted Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in the May 11 elections.Sources said that Saudi personalities congratulating Nawaz Sharif have expressed their well wishes for him and prayed for his successes and prosperity of Pakistan. Afghan President ...

ALASKA: A dad has been hailed a hero after he fought off a 25-stone bear by punching it repeatedly when it tried to attack his family. Toby Burke threw himself between his wife Laura, his three children and the wild animal. The 48-year-old, who was on a bird watching trip inKenai PeninsulainAlaska, ...

  LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson’s family tried several times to carry out “interventions” on the singer to help him fight drug addiction, but he denied having a problem, a trial heard Thursday. The late King of Pop’s mother Katherine Jackson told police a few months ...

LAHORE - Dalbir Kaur, sister of Indian prisoner Sarbajit Singh, slammed the Indian government for allegedly failing to take her brother back to India."I am very disappointed with the government because it could not take firm steps to help him," she said after she crossed into India from Wagha ...

karachi - Five members of an industrialist’s family were gunned down mysteriously in Defence Housing Authority on Tuesday.Initial investigation revealed that the major shareholder of Sanghar sugar mills first shot dead his wife and three children and later committed suicide. They were the ...

The dejected family of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was attacked in Kot Lakhpat Lahore jail last week returned to India via Wagah Border on Wednesday as the condition of the Indian prisoner remained highly critical amid reports that he is brain dead.Sarabjit Singh was attack by two death row ...

Five family members including finance director of a sugar mill were found dead in their house in Defence phase IV on Tuesday.According to police sources, five bodies bearing bullet wounds were recovered from a house located in Defence area. Initial reports suggest that the man and owner of the ...

Lahore/Islamabad - Family members of Sarabjit Singh are trying to stay closer to him after the Indian spy was admitted to a hospital from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore with a severe head injury on Friday. The same day Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur, wife Sukhpreet Kaur, and daughters Poonam and ...

islamabad - Utterly alarmed by the threats his family is receiving from banned militants groups, Mohammad Ashraf, resident of Mandi Bahauddin, has appealed to the federal and Punjab governments to provide him and his family security.While narrating his ordeal, Ashraf told TheNation on Sunday that ...

The family of Sarabjit Singh arrived in Pakistan on Sunday to meet the convicted Indian spy who is battling for his life after being assaulted allegedly by fellow inmates in the Kot Lakhpat prison.Media reported that the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued 15-day gratis visas to ...

    WAH CANTT Family members of a deceased labourer of a private industrial unit at Hassanabdal, who burnt to death two years back, are running from pillar to post to compensation, including death grant, social security and other pension benefits which are denied to them despite the lapse ...

Government of Pakistan on Saturday issued visa to four family members of the Indian spy Sarabjit Singh, who suffered head injuries in a minor dispute on Friday at Kot Lakhpat jail, Lahore.Pakistan Government has issued visa of Sarabjit Singh sister Dalbir Kaur, wife Sikh Biar Preet Kaur including ...

LOS ANGELES: Jury selection finished for a trial in which Michael Jackson’s family is suing tour promoter AEG Live, arguing it is responsible for the singer’s death since it hired his doctor.With the 12 jurors - six men and six women - and their alternates picked from a pool of more ...

YAOUNDE :  A French family abducted while holidaying in Cameroon emerged unscathed from their ordeal on Friday after two months in the hands of extremists.Tanguy and Albane Moulin-Fournier, their four children and Tanguy’s brother, Cyril, were kidnapped in Cameroon on February 19 and ...

BUNER Three persons including a woman and her two children were killed in a bomb blast in Buner district here on Friday.According to local police, the blast occurred in the field in the jurisdiction of Nawagai police station. The woman along with her two children was working in her field near her ...

LOS ANGELESAFPFamily Guy creator Seth MacFarlane condemned a doctored online clip of the show depicting its star using a cellphone to trigger explosions at the Boston marathon. The fake clip was based on scenes from an episode of the series which aired in March, and was pulled by Fox from online ...

LAHORE - Influential Wilayat Butt family head Amjad Iqbal Butt and other community chiefs of Mangowal town of Gujrat have dissociated themselves from Ahmad Mukhtar and PML-N leaderships and announced their full support to PML-Q leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Moonis Elahi at a big gathering in Mangowal ...

JAKARTA  - An Indonesian man slit the throats of his wife and three children then slept alongside their lifeless bodies before turning himself in, police said Friday. Hasan Fadli, 41, went on the bloody rampage on the Indonesian part of Borneo island after getting into a row with his wife ...

KARACHI – A child and a woman among three people were killed when the roof of a dilapidated apartment caved in at Kharadar area here on Tuesday. According to details, the ceiling of six-floor building collapsed suddenly in the wee hours of Tuesday. As result, whole family came under the ...

WASHINGTON  - Relatives and colleagues of a young US diplomat killed in Afghanistan honored her Sunday as a smart woman just starting her career and eager to engage with locals in the war-ravaged country. Anne Smedinghoff, 25, was among at least five Americans killed in separate attacks ...

MULTAN (APP) - Despite tall claims regarding provision of facilities to patients by Nishtar Medical Institute administration, Dermatology Ward is being without stretchers and air-conditioners.Sources at NMI who wished not to be named told APP on Thursday that Ward no 28 (Family Ward), catering ...

TAIPEI (AFP) - Around 8,000 members of the same family travelled from across the globe to gather in Taiwan Thursday for the traditional "tomb-sweeping festival" paying tribute to their ancestors, a report said.Descendants of the Yeh family massed in Miaoli county in northern Taiwan where they ...

Five persons including two women and a child were killed when a passenger bus collided with a car on Quetta-Chaman Highway on Friday.According to Levies sources, a passenger bus enroute to Quetta from Chaman collided with a car that killed five persons including two women and a child of the same ...

RAWALPINDI – One of officials of Punjab Emergency Service (PES) Rescue 1122 lends money on interest to the poor and destitute segments of the society and later occupies their property and valuables, besides harassing them in different ways, sources told.A Rescue 1122 official Waqas alias ...

GHULAM MURSALIN LAKKI MARWAT – The elders of Begukhel family have started flexing their muscles to give a tough time to JUI-F candidate Munawar Khan Marwat with the support of Eesakkhel family headed by Haji Muhammad Aslam Khan on the PK-76 (Lakki-III).After being ignored by JUI-F high ...

JOHANNESBURG  - Nelson Mandela spent part of Monday with his family at his hospital bedside, the South African government said, adding that there was no significant change in the condition of the frail anti-apartheid hero.The 94-year-old former president and Nobel peace laureate has been in ...

LAHORE – Dozens of people, including women, staged a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club on Friday against police for their failure to nick the runaway couple who strangled a boy in Gowalmandi area the last month.The protesters said the police investigators were deliberately delaying ...

KARACHI  - Mufti Abdur Razzaque of the Tanzeem-ul-Ehsaan has supported the use of birth planning and spacing as it insures not only maternal and newborn health, but also allows a mother to fully cater to the needs of her existing children. Maternal and newborn health remains an ignored ...

PARIS (AFP) - All five members of a family - including two teenagers and a child - died in a pre-dawn fire Wednesday at an apartment building in the suburbs of the Paris, officials said. The five lived in a flat on the fifth floor of the six-storey building in a poor area of Gennevilliers, ...

KARACHI  – The king of family entertainment centre, Sindbad’s, launched its new family entertainment centre at Dolmen Mall Clifton. The park cater kids off all ages as the makers think there are not many places where kids can enjoy to their fullest. The launch was spectacular in ...